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Penicillin: A Medical Revolution (2018)
Directed by Wilfried Hauke
Documentary, History, TV Movie · 53m
In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.
Cast
Stephan Schad
Imanuel Humm
Crew
- Director
- Wilfried Hauke
- Writer
- Wilfried Hauke
- Director of Photography
- Ralf Gemmecke
- Original Music Composer
- George Kochbeck
- Editor
- Stephan Haase
- Producer
- Christian Berg
Details
- Original title
- Die Penizillin-Story
- Release date
- 2018-06-26
- Runtime
- 53m
- Genres
- Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English, German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- dmfilm und tv produktion, ZDF, ARTE